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MUSIC
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badge
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Complete
five of the following clauses (five further clauses completed will earn a second
badge).
1. With your Patrol or some friends,
choose three pieces of music and listen to them. Each person puts the three in
order of their preference. Do you all agree? Can you explain why you
think what you do? If you play an instrument, you could do this with three
pieces you play. If you play in a group it could be pieces your group play
and you could discuss it with other members of the group.
2. Make a tape of a piece of your own
"music" and listen to it with your Patrol. You could do this in
various ways, for example you could compose and perform a tune or song, collect
sounds which hold some meaning for you (e.g. birdsong, traffic) or make up a
sound story using everyday sounds.
3. Use a favourite piece of music in an
interesting way. This could be making up a dance or aerobics routine to it
or something more unusual like painting a picture of what you see when you
listen to the music.
4. Help organise a unit campfire or a
show for parents or others or take part in a District, Division or County
campfire.
5. Make and play your own instrument.
6. Go to a concert or musical
performance. This could be with family, friends, your Patrol or your unit.
Tell an interested adult about it afterwards.
7. Investigate the history or use in
other countries of some of the music and songs used at Guides such as "Taps".
Learn "Taps" in another language or learn to sign it.
8. Make your own campfire song book.
9. Make up a musical quiz for other
members of your unit or perhaps for Brownies and Rainbows. Be as imaginative as
you can about the sorts of questions you use.
10. Find out and explain to somebody the
importance of doing breathing exercises before you sing or play a musical
instrument, or show somebody else what you do to combat nerves before a
performance.
11. Learn or find out about a song or a
piece of music from three different cultures and create an illustration for one
of them to go in a songbook or music book.
12. Learn how to DJ using the kind of
record decks and mixing decks that professional DJs use. In front of your
friends, family or Patrol, show them that you can mix two records or CDs
together to form one continuous beat (so that the beat of the two tracks forms
one continuous noise). Make a tape of yourself doing this to play to your unit,
or if you can borrow some equipment for a long enough time and feel confident
enough, arrange to DJ at a party for your Patrol or unit.
